Re: Getting blank windows when using X11 applications
Re: Getting blank windows when using X11 applications
- Subject: Re: Getting blank windows when using X11 applications
- From: Harald Hanche-Olsen <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 29 Feb 2008 19:04:13 +0100 (CET)
+ Sebastian Hahn <email@hidden>:
> Hi, thanks for your input. I can run both /usr/X11/bin/xterm and
> /usr/X11R6/bin/xterm, but when I do so, X11 opens and the window is
> blank (no prompt or anything).
Hmm. I have no idea why that happens. And it is clearly the more
serious of your problems ...
> I have neither a ~/.bash_profile nor a ~/.bashrc, but I do have a
> ~/.profile which contains "export
> PATH=/opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:$PATH".
Okay, that's harmless.
> echo $PATH gives:
> /opt/local/bin:/opt/local/sbin:/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/texbin:/usr/local/teTeX/bin/powerpc-apple-darwin-current
>
> Does that point to where the error might be?
Makes me wonder if your teTeX installation has messed with
/etc/profile in a bad way? The default /etc/profile contains
if [ -x /usr/libexec/path_helper ]; then
eval `/usr/libexec/path_helper -s`
fi
and path_helper will, among other things, look in /etc/paths.d/ where
it should find at least one file named X11, with contents
"/usr/X11/bin" (without quotes), which will then be added to the PATH
variable that path_helper builds. Is it different on your machine?
- Harald
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